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I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.


Adriana Trigiani

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KELLY JONES I grew up in a house full of books and parents who read, which led to me to reading from a very youn...
GARTH NIX what are inside books may not all that necessarily be different from what are outside books at all
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA I think the reason I'm a writer is because first, I was a reader. I loved to read. I read a lot ...
ANDREW CLEMENTS I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
CLIFF FADIMAN No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is ...
HENRY BROOKS ADAMS Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
ANONYMOUS Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any...
STEPHAN GRELLET Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more com...
W. GLADDEN Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
PATRICA FRIPP I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
WILLIAM LYON PHELPS Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU There's one good kind of writer -- a dead one.
JAMES T. FARRELL The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
AUSTIN PHELPS Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer.
ED HOWE I would sooner read a timetable or a catalog than nothing at all.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
FRAN LEBOWITZ When I am dead, I hope it may be said: "His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.".
HILAIRE BELLOC Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
DAWN ADAMS Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
DR. EMMIT FOX Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!.
FANNIE FLAGG Yes and No are very short words to say, but we should think for some length of time before saying th...
UNKNOWN The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
BIBLE To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
ANONYMOUS Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenti...
MONTESQUIEU No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU When the printing press was developed in the fifteenth century it was said that printed books would ...
JAMES BURKE Love: so many people read about it in books and research on it in libraries yet so few discover the ...
AVIJEET DAS I realized very young that I loved reading and wanted to do something related to books/reading for a...
ELLEN DATLOW A program of active reading and writing might be the hardest form of thinking, but it is also the mo...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Things change, friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad...
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other t...
SALMAN RUSHDIE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it....
ZADIE SMITH On a cloudy day, when the dim dance of the firelight and the warmth of the sconces are not enough, t...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.
MITCH ALBOM Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w...
AVI I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read &...
RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.
LEMONY SNICKET Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES They say that a part of you dies when a special Loved One passes away...I disagree...I say a part of...
DANIEL YANEZ A book is an invitation to enter another person's mind and heart.
JAIME CONTRERAS We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS I think the purest of souls, those with the most fragile of hearts, must be meant for a short life. ...
EMM COLE I guess I never grew up. I was still reading kids' books in high school and college. I was alway...
MICHAEL PATRICK HEARN And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much...
EMILY MAGUIRE I didn't start writing until late high school and then I was just diddling. Mainly I loved to re...
JUNOT DIAZ He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I was asked to do a reading of 'G.B.F.' and I loved the script. I thought it was one of the ...
SASHA PIETERSE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. All I wanted to do was go back inside to the library and read a book.I used to spend all my time rea...
KATHRYN MAGENDIE Literature has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. I can't think back before a t...
ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�...
CHERYL R COWTAN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH blue-gold sky, fresh cloud,
emerald-black mountain, trees
on rocky ledges,

o...
BARBARA BLATNER God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bib...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
MARK TWAIN He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange...
DAVID DUCHOVNY A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.
Not only do you learn in the journey ...
LIZ HAY The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the...
MICHAEL HARRIS I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read...
CASSI THOMSON I think sometimes there is no right thing.
ROSAMUND HODGE If i thought this would never happen again I would die.
But this is wrong, nobody dies from lac...
MARGARET ATWOOD I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; ...
DAVID S. GOYER Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
Camerlengo Carlo Ve...
DAN BROWN Each day before the end of eve
she sought her lover, nor would him leave,
until the stars ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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ADRIANA MARTINEZ We can't have the entire city go residential.
ADRIANA MARTINEZ Oh, come on now; I can't give you an estimate.
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